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TITLE: Journal of a Residence in the Burmhan Empire, and More Particularly at the Court of Amarapoorah
AUTHOR: Captain Hiram Cox
PUBLISHER: John Warren, Old Bond Street, and G. And W.B. Whittaler
PLACE: London
YEAR:1821
NO.OF PAGES: Half title, viii, 431pp. [1] , colour aquatint folding frontispiece, 4 colour plates.
BINDING: Later leather binding with original spine.
SIZE: 22 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
LIST OF PLATES:-
1. A Whoonghee or First Minister's wife in her Hackney with Female Slave Attendants. Folding
2. Chief Sereedoghee
3. A Trooper
4. A Looto Seree
5. A Nakhan
Captain Hiram Cox (1760 - 1799) was a British diplomat serving in Bengal and Burma in the 18th century. As an officer of the East India Company, Captain Cox was appointed Superintendent of the Palongkee outpost after Warren Hastings became Governor of Bengal. In 1796, following a request from the Governor General to the East India Company, Captain Cox was sent to Rangoon to deal
with a century-long conflict between Arakan refugees and local Rakhains.
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